Van Gogh’s Olive trees in dry stone

The stone for the wall (pictured right) was reclaimed sand stone from the local collapsed field walls which had long since been neglected. Richard (below) used grit stone from a nearby Victorian quarry for the tree’s foliage. The tree is a retraining wall using about 20 tons of stone to stabilise the higher ground. Richard and his son Lewyn built the wall in a private garden near Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England of ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ fame. The client set the challenge that we should build a tree in the style of Van Gogh’s Olive trees. This is […]